Total biomass of mesoplankton and biomass of Calanus tonsus in the 0-200 m layer at stations in the Southwest Pacific

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Structure of mesoplankton and distribution of dissolved ammonia in the vicinity of an isolated seamount of the Louisville Ridge in the subantarctic zone of the Pacific Ocean was studied using data obtained in January 1985 in an area 20 x 30 nm. There were areas with both high (20-25 to 139 g/m**2 in the 0-200 m layer) and low biomass values (80% of biomass); its population was relatively mature in seasonal terms, with relatively high percentage of individuals containing fat inclusions. Stations with high mesoplankton biomass also had relatively high concentrations of dissolved ammonia. Presence of plankton-rich areas corre¬lated with presence of a quasi-steady-state topographic eddy. Lifetimes of these nonuniformities in the structure of mesoplankton are estimated as 10-30 days.

Supplement to: Flint, Mikhail V; Yakushev, E V (1988): Spatial structure of mesoplankton and distribution of dissolved ammonia in the vicinity of Pulkovskaya Seamount. Oceanology, 28(5), 655-660

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.757598
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.757598
Provenance
Creator Flint, Mikhail V ORCID logo; Yakushev, E V
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1988
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Language English
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 105 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-157.867W, -45.658S, -157.358E, -45.213N); Pacific Ocean